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Europe Agri, October, 2006
Tags: moratorium, World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has officially published its report on the moratorium imposed by the EU on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) between October 1998 and May 2004. The moratorium, imposed following a complaint from the US, Argentina and Canada, is largely symbolic given the subsequent relaunch of authorisation procedures for transgenic products.
More important is the policing and arbitrating carried out by the World Trade Organisation in respect of the safety clauses invoked by several European countries (at the time these were Germany, Austria, France, Italy, ...
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